4 Tips to Quit Multitasking

It’s messing with your brain — and your happiness

整合自己想法的總結(jié)

? 這里有四個(gè)方法去避免自己陷入并行處理的“陷阱”

1. 合理使用一些方法記錄自己處理任務(wù)時(shí)的情況，是否頻繁被打斷而做其他事。
   這里相當(dāng)于反饋與總結(jié)，讓自己能夠全局的了解到自己做一件事效率怎么樣，如何做改進(jìn)。

2. 關(guān)閉所有app通知。
   個(gè)人也完全推薦這一點(diǎn)，也是瘋狂的實(shí)踐者：

   1. 有兩個(gè)微信號(hào)，一個(gè)工作，一個(gè)私人的。

   2. app很多通知我都會(huì)選擇不提示不提醒，短信也一樣。

   3. 如果遇到一些陌生的人也會(huì)直接設(shè)置攔截，外地固話(huà)響也不會(huì)接。

   4. 幾乎所有應(yīng)用權(quán)限都設(shè)置了一遍，不給彈窗。

   5. qq、微信各種群都是設(shè)置為“進(jìn)入群助手且不提醒”的狀態(tài)。

      所以手機(jī)一直保持輕輕酸爽的狀態(tài)，只要響了，一定是重要的事。

3. 短時(shí)間內(nèi)處理郵件。
   一般我個(gè)人工作郵件也不會(huì)打開(kāi)，除非自己去看，所以是不會(huì)有提示的，并且盡可能在同一個(gè)時(shí)間批量處理郵件。

4. 一個(gè)舒適的環(huán)境
   學(xué)習(xí)，是一個(gè)需要深度思考的事，所以最好找一個(gè)安靜的地方，能讓自己獨(dú)處在一個(gè)空間內(nèi)，斷絕任何干擾。

   以上是對(duì)英文的小總結(jié)，結(jié)合自己平時(shí)生活習(xí)慣的連接，下面是進(jìn)入第二次思考。

? 多任務(wù)處理，在上大學(xué)的時(shí)候，看到有一個(gè)朋友特別牛，電腦兩個(gè)屏幕，一個(gè)屏幕在播電影，一個(gè)屏幕在玩游戲，手機(jī)放在面前又一個(gè)手游，三件事情同時(shí)處理，那個(gè)時(shí)候看到后，內(nèi)心覺(jué)得很是欽佩，快速切換實(shí)現(xiàn)一次性處理三件事，看起來(lái)是挺高效的。

? 這是針對(duì)一些輕松的事情，或者不需要更多思考方面就可以快速切換的處理，但如果需要深入思考，比如學(xué)習(xí)，思考某個(gè)問(wèn)題，那么并行處理其他事情，比如再思考的時(shí)候，有一個(gè)電話(huà)打過(guò)來(lái)，或者突然看到一個(gè)興趣的話(huà)題，就跳轉(zhuǎn)到另外一個(gè)不相關(guān)問(wèn)題的思考，會(huì)讓我們效率低下 ，因?yàn)楫?dāng)我們?cè)谇袚Q的時(shí)候，我們的大腦會(huì)花很多時(shí)間去重新集中注意力到新的事物上，我們的精力是有限的，頻繁的切換，并不高效。

? 這里有個(gè)比喻，我們的大腦就像是電腦的CPU一樣，CPU也是通過(guò)快速的（時(shí)間足夠短）切換處理每一條任務(wù)（我們正在做的事），看起來(lái)像是同時(shí)進(jìn)行一樣，但如果是計(jì)算密集型的任務(wù)（比如AI計(jì)算，這里類(lèi)似于我們的深度思考，特別需要大腦的占用），那就不推薦頻繁切換了，因?yàn)榍袚Q的代價(jià)太大，切換只會(huì)降低CPU處理任務(wù)的效率。

? 在公司，我們也經(jīng)常會(huì)遇到，一天內(nèi)，一個(gè)重要的任務(wù)會(huì)瘋狂被其他事打擾，比如說(shuō)萌新的要去幫忙搬桌椅，工會(huì)代表臨時(shí)要開(kāi)會(huì)得去參加，接著小組站立會(huì)，幫實(shí)施組部署機(jī)子，上面的要求都是硬性要求還不能不參加，導(dǎo)致有時(shí)候有一些感慨，加班不是沒(méi)有原因的，只有加班才有空閑的時(shí)間去思考代碼怎么寫(xiě)，只有下班的時(shí)候才有時(shí)間想想今天的工作！

英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)

• constantly 持續(xù)
• productive 高效
• estimated 預(yù)估的，估算
• restless 坐立不安
• distracted 分心分神
• grab 抓取，拿取
• urge 急迫的
• triggers 觸發(fā)引起
• awareness 意識(shí)
• temptation 誘惑
• notifications 通知
• relocate 重新安排
• reserve 預(yù)約，儲(chǔ)備

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I’m going to take a guess: You’re doing something else right now in addition to reading this article. Maybe you’re in a meeting, or working on a proposal, or walking on a treadmill, or listening to your mom on the phone telling you what she had for dinner. The point is you’re multitasking.

And why wouldn’t you, when busyness has become such a badge of honor? When we’re led to believe that we need to be “doing” something at all times, why stop at one thing? Why not go for two things in a single moment, or even three? With all the pressure to be constantly productive, it’s easy to forget about all the studies telling us that multitasking isn’t effective. But there are plenty of them: Research has shown that multitasking reduces productivity(every time you switch between tasks, it takes up to nine minutes to refocus on the original task), increases the rate of errors, and may even damage your brain. The estimated global cost of multitasking is $450 billion a year. It’s also making us sad.

Let me ask you some questions:

1. Do you ever feel restless?
2. Do you feel the urge to grab your phone every five minutes (or even less)?
3. Do you find it difficult to focus on just one thing?
4. Do your relationships suffer from your “distracted” behavior?

If you answered yes to all four, you might be addicted to multitasking. I was, too. But once I became aware of my behavior, I made a concerted effort to change. Here are my tips for how to follow suit.

Pay attention

For next few days, make note of when you’re dealing with more than one task at the same time. Do you tend to multitask more at certain times of day? When you’re doing certain types of tasks? Figure out what your triggers are — without awareness, we can’t change our behavior.

Turn off notifications for your nonessential apps

To reduce the temptation to split my attention, I’ve turned off notifications on almost all the apps on my phone and computer. The exceptions include calls, messages, reminders, calendar alerts, notices from my banking app, and warnings from my security cam app. Everything else is off. I’ve gotten rid of notifications for group texts, email, social media, and news.

Check email at a few set times

Unless you work in customer service, it shouldn’t be a problem to keep your email closed throughout the day. Choose a few set times to check your messages so you’re not doing it throughout the day while working on other things.

Relocate if necessary

Too many offices are distracting. If you can’t focus where you work, reserve a conference room for a half-hour each day. If you can’t do that, request to work from home one or two days a week. Do what you can to get to a physical space where you can focus.

When you quit multitasking, your mind gets stronger, so try to see all these tips as exercise for your brain. You can do it — one task at a time.

from： https://forge.medium.com/4-tips-to-quit-multitasking-190fbed54572